Legion Assaults - Defender of the Broken Isles Guide

Week 2 of Patch 7.2 introduces Legion Assaults. These are Legion invasions that occur in Azsuna, Val'sharah, Highmountain, and Stormheim. In these invasions, players will complete demonic World Quests and then defend a notable area in each Broken Isle zone, like Thunder Totem. This culminates in a special group scenario where you fight a Legion Command ship.

Assault Schedule

Legion Assaults are not ongoing 24/7, they randomly spawn in a zone for six hours. Once you’ve repelled the Legion Assault from the Broken Isles, the Legion take time to regroup before their next assault.

There will be at least one invasion a day. While four invasions cycle every 3 days, this does not mean they are unique invasions. You can have two of the same invasions pop in a 3 day period.

Legion Assaults spawn roughly 18 hours apart, on the hour or half-hour. NA and EU invasions spawn at different times. Please see this spreadsheet by ManyThingsDeck for when the next invasion will spawn or you can also check our 'Today in Broken Isles' located on the front page.

Assault Basics

A zone under a Legion Assault will have a green, demonic portal marking it as under assault on the larger continent map.

Legion Assaults will replace all the World Quests in a specific zone with Demon-themed World Quests.

These new World Quests must be completed for the zone-specific world quests to return and to advance the Assault (i.e. Ataque a Val'sharah).

These Demon-themed World Quests reward tons of Nethershards! They can also drop the usual World Quest items like Order Resources and Artifact Power.

Once you have completed 4 of these Demon-themed World Quests, you will be asked to defend an area of each zone (i.e. Thunder Totem.)

You are then put into a 3-person scenario where you fight a Legion Command ship.

Once you have completed this scenario, you have "repelled an assault."

You must be level 110 to complete the entire scenario, but players under 110 can work on the first part.

These quests are pretty easy. They unlock the Broken Shore questing zone and send you to discover flight paths and progress on buildings.

Assault Structure

There are three parts to a Legion Assault:

Stage 1 - Complete 4 Demonic World Quests. There are more than four WQs in a zone, and you can complete more of them until the Assault despawns. All of these quests reward Estiléter, and some also reward gold, Order Resources, or AP.

Stage 2 - Assist an ally with cleansing the Legion from the zone. This generally takes the form of a progress bar quest and defeating some mobs/elites in a densely packed area. Upon completing this, you will receive an Artifact Power Token.

Stage 3 - Queue up for a 3 player scenario to invade a Legion ship. If queue times are long, you can find a group via the Premade Group Finder. Killing the final boss rewards a large amount of Nethershards, the Artifact Power item Crônicas "Revisadas" de Argus, a (chance of a) transmoggable weapon with a unique appearance, a Dauntless Token, lots of gold, and an ilvl 850+ piece of gear, with a distinctive look. Upon turning in the "Battle for.." quest, you are awarded another Artifact Power token.

If you finish the Assault and go back and complete more World Quests, you can easily acquire several thousand Nethershards.

Gear: The NPCs can also drop Dauntless Tokens which are great for alts, and the final boss drops a special new Demonic-themed piece of gear which can also be ilvl 850+.Artifact Power: Stage 2 and Stage 3 award Artifact Power tokens, and the final boss also drops a large token.Reputation: Completing a Legion Assault for Defendendo as Ilhas Partidas awards 1500 Armies of Legionfall Reputation (one-time quest). Please see our Armies of Legionfall Rep Guide for more information. Completing related Assault World Quests awards reputation with that zone's emissary.Experience: Legion Assaults are also a great source of experience for players under 110. Anyone below 110 can do the World Quests and get the basic rewards, but you need to be 110 to do the epic 3 person scenario at the end. At level 100 you get 10% of a level from completing a World Quest.

Transmogrification

Players can get new distinctive armor and weapon sets from invasions! The weapons, which have a chance to drop from the final boss, were datamined as part of the pre-Launch Legion event, and only made it into the game now.

Comentários

Comentado por littletiny

Does anyone know, can you do more than 4 special world quests in the area before doing the defending scenario? Can you do all quests in the area for shards and rep with whichever faction before heading to the scenario?

Comentado por DrummerKane

So, if there are no "Legion Assault Quests" currently up for me, all I should need to do is wait?

Comentado por Damontis23

I have been waiting in que for the Scenario for 10 minutes already.

Comentado por lagmoose

Came up about 30 minutes ago (roughly 5pm Eastern US, give or take a few minutes. Right now the scenario is taking AGES to queue up. I've heard tell that the server had crashed that it's on, but /shrug.

edit: At the time of this posting, I'm guessing the servers that the scenario is on were swamped. Queue took a total of 30 minutes to pop. A few hours later, it wasn't so bad.

It should take roughly 30-40 minutes total to get the assault done. The scenario was super quick, not even 10 minutes.

Comentado por DreamMkr

Ok is this something thats only for 110?I cant seem to find any quests anywhere nor can I queue for it at 103

Comentado por wilki24

If you're having issues with the wait time, if you form a 3 person group, you will queue instantly for the scenario at the end.

Comentado por Prodigy171

Anyone else having trouble finishing the scenario? I got to the legion ship but now I can't target Xeritas

Comentado por Rayyth

"A transmoggable weapon with a unique appearance" - I've done the scenario on two toons now, and neither time did this drop for me.

Comentado por Gadoink4

Aww, no polearm transmog?

Comentado por Mathurin00

These must be bugged to hell. I finished the 4 Legion Assault Points but it wouldn't allow me to turn it in, just a grey quest icon above Farondis's head. Abandoned it to reset but there weren't any assault points left to repel. Good job Blizzard....

Comentado por delindsay

While I'm glad Blizz decided to bring back the "Invasions" there were so many things they could've done to make them more enjoyable for all Levels, but they chose not to.

Comentado por Happii

Do invasions show up on the app map?

Comentado por keket87

Does these assaults/invasion will last only few days/weeks or will they last forever ?

Comentado por Nari

"but players under 110 can work on the first part"

Is this viable way to level a character? Like the way old world invasions were.

Comentado por Derthsin

Event is bugged for me. Had the quest to kill the last boss in the scenario, killed him and quest did not complete. For some reason the quest from the broken shore to repel a legion invasion completed, but the actual legion assault didnt complete.

Comentado por Qualanthar

" If queue times are long, you can find a group via the Premade Group Finder. "

This is false.

After my first queue took 20+ minutes at about an hour into the event, I later tried to do exactly that. I got a "You can't use Pre-Made Groups for this content" warning when I tried to queue. Fortunately, I requeued solo and it popped in about 5 minutes and I got it done.

But to not let Pre-made Groups queue is annoying as f$ and a slap in the face for the system.

Comentado por Mikalion

It's nice to see hunters are represented in the transmog weapon list. Par for the course...

Comentado por czibu

No life!Work+Sleep =15h. i have 9 hour window to catch 1 Assault.Goodluck.

Comentado por rktsci

The Dauntless tokens that drop aren't that great for alts, as they are soulbound.

Comentado por Kyunei

I really hope blizzard has more foresight and common sense than to make a requirement for flying based on a timed, random and -very- buggy event. Not to mention hinging on the fact people have time to do all the steps in a limited amount of time.

Comentado por Owlmanjones

Only the first assault rewards 1500 rep be sure to get DMF buff to get 1650 I'm at about 7k honored and sadly only the first assault rewards rep. Had people thinking these are bugged due to not getting rep with legionfall. Also had some people who said that after completing the scenario nothing happened. Each end boss rewards roughly 1k shards some supplies beacons and order resources.

Comentado por Jthib27

I ended leaving to repair my equipment. is there another way up there to get into the scenario?

Comentado por Jthib27

I ended leaving to repair my equipment. is there another way up there to get into the scenario?

Comentado por jjonessec

cant see any of them again today, didnt see any in azsuna either, deleted cache, wtf, turned off all addons, nothing...

Comentado por fifth

I'm not liking the short window for zone invasions. 8am-2pm Pacific Time? Some of us actually have jobs Blizzard!

Comentado por geekygirlish

This time was ridiculous for the EU realm, 3:30 to 9:30 am? So Blizz is encouraging us to get up in the middle of the night and this doesn't seem fair to people who work. I am on GMT so got my breakfast, sat down after with my morning coffee and realised I had 3 minutes to complete everything. This needs to be fixed.ETA: I also forgot to mention the kids in our guild who can't do this because they are students. Maybe make it shorter duration but a few times a day?

Comentado por crsh1976

Not sure what they were thinking about those odd schedules and limited durations - I played one part in Val'sharah yesterday, couldn't complete the invasion, will it actually come back so I can do it in several steps or am I out of luck?

Comentado por Lezz2014

The assault on Stormheim scenario was extremely buggy. My Stormdrake bugged out and wouldn't let me fly to the command ship and I wasn't able to help the other 2 dps complete the scenario. So I abandoned the scenario quest and queued again which it then let me complete it but I wasn't able to loot :( Also one of the other dps in the second scenario's drake bugged after we downed the commander and dropped him to his death. He wasn't able to turn in the completion and I missed out on an 880 chest piece :(

Comentado por Eziair

Due to work I've not seen a single invasion yet. Cheers Blizz

Edit: Yea, my first Invasion. Stormheim right now (8/4/17, 1pm GMT). So glad I have Saturdays off.

Comentado por Azurfel

As far as can be told from current data, an assault spawns at either XX:00 or XX:30, ends 6 hours later and then the next assault spawns 12.5 hours after that.

US server assaults so far as of this post (all times will be EDT):

2017.04.04 16:30-22:30 Azsuna

2017.04.05 11:00-17:00 Val'sharah

2017.04.06 05:30-11:30 Stormheim

This means that the next assault will almost certainly be:

2017.04.07 00:00-06:00 Highmountain

Beyond that, things get a little harder to predict since we don't know if the first assault of the second cycle will start 12.5 hours after the last assault of the first cycle ends or if there will be less/more time in between, but assuming that the current pattern holds indefinitely, the remainder of the assaults this week should be happening at the following times:

2017.04.07 18:30-00:30

2017.04.08 13:00-19:00

2017.04.09 07:30-13:30

2017.04.10 02:00-08:00

2017.04.10 20:30-02:30

Comentado por poupy1979

WTH? the legion dont use Daggers?so why no dagger transmog?

Comentado por poupy1979

WTH? the legion dont use Daggers?so why no dagger transmog?

Comentado por Deathshay

Highmountain Popped at 15.30 on Doomhammer EU. Took about an hour total including scenario.

Comentado por Turkinolith

Several things I found that are not listed.There are buffs you get in each zone, like Blessing of the Earthmother, that give a +5 to all stats. Also there are legion beacons that if you destroy give a 30 minute buff called "Fel Infused" that procs a ton of bolts.

Also there are some treasures hidden around the zone, I found some wyrmtounge looting a corpse just outside of Thunder Totem near the water.

Comentado por Kronzlife

Predicted Legion Assault Spawn Times EDT US. (Based on 12.5 hour intervals)Assuming Times Aren't Altered By Server Maint. Or Restarts.Also this is for Rexxar-Misha.Unknown if times vary based on server.Spawn locations may be random.

Comentado por Pureownage

Highmountain was last up, now its again up lol.Its the same assault again, why not Azuna then as new cycle.

Comentado por Vesaenna

I'm not sure if anybody can help me...when a Legion Assault Quest comes up, (I currently have "Defending Broken Isles" btw) no Legion assault quests show up in the zone I am in. Actually, no WQ's at all show up. If I fly into a zone, the quest will pop (ex. Assault on Val'sharah) so I click "I accept" and then nothing. There are no world quest buttons, there are no Legion Assault Objective buttons. I have closed and reopened wow, I have turned off all addons, reloaded UI, reset the game with them off, everything! I sent in a ticket, no responses have been useful (like, make sure my clock is the right time, delete curse off my computer)

One friend mentioned to open my log instead, specifically click the quest, and then the objective areas will show on the map. sadly that did not work for me. Is it possible because I did a character transfer a few months ago that it is glitching out my game? I have no idea what to do! has anybody else had this problem?

Comentado por zidane2

I guess i wasted my time deffending Val'sharah, spent a lot of time,broke my gear, then no reward, because i didnt have a quest, also 0 drops. Let the legion invade all they want for now, i still need to open those world quests somehow.

Comentado por tazmaniaa

so i have the quest for defending the broken isles, but every time i try to defend the broken isles it wont show the quest on map. it shows where the assault is, but like i said no quest. i can find where they are at and kill them, but i don't get anything for it. this has been ongoing since last week when i was trying to start it. all i want to do is defend the broken isles. :(

Comentado por Elveen

Can i somehow turn off assault for my char, and get back to normal word quests in invasion zone? Already got everything i want from invasions, and now they just disturb my profession quest in zone

Comentado por Gaminglady

Early am 4/16/2017 Easter Sunday, 3:29 pacific standard time, DDoS (Deliberate Denial of Service) attack... stayed up all night just to get this one done... will have to complete the one at 9:30 pm pacific standard time... if its not attacked as well.

Comentado por Gudgave

I'm unable to start any world quests for the legion assault on a char that was 103 and now 104 and still can't see the quests when I enter the zones. This is the third day I'm trying to do this. I do have a ticket in. No addons installed at all. I also tried resetting all in game settings.

Edit: I tried starting the WQ on a diff account who could see an assault but the share quest was grayed out for the toon in question.

Edit: 4/21, The account I was attempting to use was my wife's.

UPDATE from a ticket I put in:

Blue Response:

understand that you had an issue with seeing invasion world quests.

Not to worry! I see what the problem is.

Because the Legion invasions are world quests, if world quests have not been unlocked by the account by one character being 110 with at least friendly reputation with every faction, they will not be visible for you.

Once you unlock world quests for your account, you should be able to complete them without any problems.

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Comentado por rrrof711

I was able to see the Legion Assault quest in Azsuna earlier today at lvl 108 or 109. I almost got half a level just from the epic quests plus rested xp bonus on the regular mobs and elite boss for the WQs I did. I did 2 epic quests and 1 regular quest and I must have racked up over 140 thousand xp or something ridiculous like that plus a couple of the rewards were xp rewards as well which was amazing! There wasn't a whole lot of time left and I really didn't feel like finishing the assault so I don't know if you can do the final quests of the Assault prior to 110. All I know is that it helped a lot with a character that is almost 110. I had about 10-15 artifact power points in my weapon which may have something to do with it or maybe an iLVL requirement as well. I was over ilvl 650 at the time.

Comentado por Macondor

For whatever reason, this scenario has too many mobs that respawn about every 25 - 30 seconds. I've watched the video guide and successfully completed the scenario about 5 times both on my main and alts. However my experience is completely different than the video guide. The part that is different is the Battle for Val'sharah scenario where you have to shut down three portals before entering the tower. Every time I've run that, large groups of mobs spawn continuously, and make it exceedingly difficult to complete that section of the scenario. At times we were battling more than 20 mobs at the same time, despite standing off to the sid, up a hill away from the spawn area because as we downed one group of 4, several more would spawn. If any party member dies, they pretty much can't get back up the ramp by themselves and it takes many extra minutes to do the same tedious runs. Last night, one of the party members left the group because he was so pissed over it, and we never got a third to join despite being in queue. Needless to say it was a royal pita and not fun at all, one of the worst experiences I've had with wow in the 8 plus years I've been playing. We eventually finished it but the game design here left a lot to be desired. If anyone has any advice on how to stop the mobs from continually respawning, I'd love to hear it. The video makes it look easy, but like I said, my experience is nothing like the video.

Comentado por necroAlpine

Can you do stages of the assault separately even after the assault timer finishes? For example finish stage 1 with the 4 specific demon WQs, then log out, come back later and finish stage 2 and scenario?

Comentado por Sairuss

As of today, the Legion Assault: Thunder Totem seems to be bugged. Stage 1 has new requirements (no more clicking crystals or saving fainted taurens), it's now a simple progress barof killing stuff. But as soon as that completes, it tells you to calm 5 Frightened Rivermane, which are all highlighted around Thunder Totem, but can't be interacted with. None of the 40+ people around me doing the same quest was able to interact. Even so, the Rivermane would occasionally trigger a text prompt and fade out, as if they were interacted with, even if noone around them got credit for anything.

Comentado por Babytoes

If you have not turned in the quest to get your whistle after hitting 110 (I say this for my alts who at the time of posting this already have flying incase uniting the isles plays a factor). You will not get the invasion quest to do the scenario after completing the invasion WQs. I found that out the hard way.

Comentado por SteveEbey73742

Simple method for calculation of next assault is to take the current assualt end time, add 30 minutes, and if AM then change to PM or vice versa. As an example, if an assault starts at 10:00 AM, and ends at 4:00 PM, then add 30 minutes, to get 4:30 and change PM to AM, so that means next assault will be 4:30 AM. Hope this comes in handy in helping people schedule assaults.

Comentado por Soeroah

I wish the timer on the front page could tell you what the next NA assault is... they're always the same as EU, but unless you happen to look while the EU one is active you can't see what zone's WQs are gonna be denied in US.

Comentado por Cakechart

Half of the quests listed under Assault on Val'sharah are wrong.

Comentado por celtictexan

So I'm on the bird about to enter the portal on the tower, and time runs out. The bird disappears and I fall to my death. Great job Blizz.

Comentado por celtictexan

So I'm on the bird about to enter the portal on the tower, and time runs out. The bird disappears and I fall to my death. Great job Blizz.

Comentado por wowilovehead

Which zone it is going to be in may be random, but its always the same zone as the one that has the random WQ that gives 500 honor.